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End of Watch (Bill Hodges Trilogy, #3) QUOTES

End of Watch (Bill Hodges Trilogy, #3) QUOTES

1 " Bill Hodges is her touchstone, the way she measures her ability to interact with the world. Which is only another way of saying that he is the way she measures her sanity. Trying to imagine her life with him gone is like standing on top of a skyscraper and looking at the sidewalk sixty stories below. "

― Stephen King , End of Watch (Bill Hodges Trilogy, #3)

2 " It’s about how some people carelessly squander what others would sell their souls to have: a healthy, pain-free body. And why? Because they’re too blind, too emotionally scarred, or too self-involved to see past the earth’s dark curve to the next sunrise. Which always comes, if one continues to draw breath. "

― Stephen King , End of Watch (Bill Hodges Trilogy, #3)

3 " Being needed is a great thing. Maybe the great thing. "

― Stephen King , End of Watch (Bill Hodges Trilogy, #3)

4 " Payback is a bitch, and the bitch is back. "

― Stephen King , End of Watch (Bill Hodges Trilogy, #3)

5 " Because things can get better, and if you give them a chance, they usually do. "

― Stephen King , End of Watch (Bill Hodges Trilogy, #3)

6 " If life hands you lemons, make lemonade! Words to live by, especially when you kept in mind that the only way to make them into lemonade was to squeeze the hell out of them. "

― Stephen King , End of Watch (Bill Hodges Trilogy, #3)

7 " That’s me, Brady thought happily. When they give your middle name, you know you’re an authentic boogeyman. "

― Stephen King , End of Watch (Bill Hodges Trilogy, #3)

8 " You play the game to the end. That’s how it works; play to the end. "

― Stephen King , End of Watch (Bill Hodges Trilogy, #3)

9 " End of watch is what they call it, but Hodges himself has found it impossible to give up watching. "

― Stephen King , End of Watch (Bill Hodges Trilogy, #3)

10 " You’re a Frankenstein!”
“Don’t confuse the monster with the creator. "

― Stephen King , End of Watch (Bill Hodges Trilogy, #3)

11 " One last thing. End of Watch is fiction, but the high rate of suicides—both in the United States and in many other countries where my books are read—is all too real. The National Suicide Prevention Hotline number given in this book is also real. It’s 1-800-273-TALK. If you are feeling poopy (as Holly Gibney would say), give them a call. Because things can get better, and if you give them a chance, they usually do. Stephen "

― Stephen King , End of Watch (Bill Hodges Trilogy, #3)

12 " The seeds sown in childhood put down deep roots. "

― Stephen King , End of Watch (Bill Hodges Trilogy, #3)

13 " Too late always comes too early. She "

― Stephen King , End of Watch (Bill Hodges Trilogy, #3)

14 " The seeds sown in childhood put down deep roots. At "

― Stephen King , End of Watch (Bill Hodges Trilogy, #3)

15 " When nurses drink, they have a tendency to go all in. They’re like cops that way. "

― Stephen King , End of Watch (Bill Hodges Trilogy, #3)

16 " He began to understand what contentment actually was: the emotional version of the horse latitudes, where all the winds died away and one simply drifted. It ensued when one ran out of goals to grow. • • • This "

― Stephen King , End of Watch (Bill Hodges Trilogy, #3)

17 " Now stop fucking around and look at the fishies. You know you want to. "

― Stephen King , End of Watch (Bill Hodges Trilogy, #3)

18 " In southern Wales, dozens of teens hung themselves between 2007 and 2009, with messages on social networking sites stoking the craze. Even the goodbyes they left were couched in Netspeak: Me2 and CU L8er. "

― Stephen King , End of Watch (Bill Hodges Trilogy, #3)

19 " Holly hangs up, washes her face in the tiny lavatory, reapplies "

― Stephen King , End of Watch (Bill Hodges Trilogy, #3)

20 " Crying harder than ever, because she knows he’s telling the truth about needing her. And being needed is a great thing. Maybe the great thing. "

― Stephen King , End of Watch (Bill Hodges Trilogy, #3)